Avery  Architectural  and  Fine  Arts  Library 
Gift  of  Seymour  B.  Durst  Old  York  Library 


COLUMBIA  UNIVERSITY 

1897 


Routes  to  the  New  Site. 


FROM  THE  SOUTH. 

On  the  West  Side:  On  the  East  Side: 

The  Amsterdam  Avenue  or  Boulevard  surface  lines  to  ii6th  The  Third  Avenue  l'lL'\  at<.(l  Road,  the  Third  or  Lexington 

Street.    The  Sixth  or  Ninth  Avenue  Elevated  Roads  to  Avenue  cable  lines  to  i2j;th  street  and   the  Crosstown 

ii6th  Street,  or  to  104th  Street  and  thence  by  the  Amster-  cable  line  to  Amsterdam  Avenue, 
dam  Avenue  line  of  street  cars. 


FROM  THE  NORTH. 


The  Hudson  River  and  Harlem  Railroads  to  125th  Street  and  the  125th  Street  crosstown  line. 

The  Suburban  Branch  of  the  New  Haven  Railroad  to  129th  Street  and  the  125th  Street  crosstown  line. 


I   III':  XIOW  SrnC  of  Ct)lumbia  I'nivcrsity  comprises  about  18  acres.    At  the  south  the  land  was  hij^h, 
I      the  hijihest  point  being-  150  feet  above  the  Hudson  River,    This  point  was  about  200  feet  back  from 
I      1 1 6th  Street,  the  southern  boundary  of  the  site.     From  this  highest  point  the  land  fell  rapidly 
towards  the  north,  dipping  down  to  grade  106  in  a  distance  of  a  little  more  than  700  feet.  The 
architects  have  taken  advantage  of  this  formation  of  the  ground  to  create  at  the  southern  end  of  the  site 
a  building  platform  on  grade  150,  covering  about  two-thirds  of  the  area  of  the  whole  plot    This  has  been 
effected  by  excavating  on  the  Ime  of  ii6th  Street,  on  the  southern  front  of  the  grounds,  an  open  court 
350  feet  in  width  by  128  feet  in  depth.    The  effect  of  this  excavation,  on  the  one  hand,  is  to  permit  the 
passer-by  to  look  into  the  grounds  ;  and,  on  the  other  hand,  to  place  the  buildings  on  a  platform  on 
which  they  can  be  seen  to  the  best  advantage.    The  earth  taken  from  this  court  has  been  filled  in  behind 
the  Library  and  is  held  there  by  a  heavy  retaining  wall,  so  that  all  of  the  buildings  on  the  interior  appear  to 
begin  from  the  high  grade  of  150  feet  above  the  river.    The  buildings  on  the  edges  of  this  platform,  on  the 
other  hand,  on  the  outside  get  the  benefit  of  the  lower  levels  of  the  surrounding  streets  and  of  the  land  at  the 
northern  end  of  the  University  grounds,  and  so  obtain  one  or  two  well-lighted  stories  that,  except  for  this 
difference  in  grade,  would  be  entirely  dark. 

The  plan  contained  in  tliis  pamphlet  shows  the  general  arrangement  of  the  buildings.  Those  that  are 
heavily  shaded  are  expected  to  be  ready  for  occupancy  by  October  1897.  The  large  building  known  as  Uni- 
versity Hall  has  an  entrance  upon  both  levels.  Its  southern  entrance  is  from  grade  150.  Its  northern 
entrance  is  from  grade  125,  or  thereabouts.  This  building  is  to  be  constructed,  at  the  present  time,  only  up  to 
the  high  grade.  It  will  contain  the  gymnasium  and  baths,  and  also  the  power  house  for  the  entire  site.  The 
superstructure,  when  built,  will  contain  the  academic  theatre,  seating  2500  people,  and  the  alumni  memorial 
hall.    The  latter  is  to  be  used  as  a  dining  hall  and  will  seat  600  persons. 

The  yL,ibrary  building,  besides  being  used  as  a  general  library,  is  treated  as  the  laboratory  of  those 
faculties  wliose  implements  of  work  are  books  alone.  The  northern  wing,  for  example,  is  given  up  to  the 
Law  School.  On  the  main  floor  is  the  law  reading  room,  with  the  law  book-stacks  below  it.  On  either  side 
are  rooms  for  the  administrative  offices  of  the  School,  the  professors'  rooms,  rooms  for  the  law  clubs  and  the 
like.  On  the  top  floor  of  the  building  are  law  lecture  rooms.  Similarly,  the  Faculty  of  Political  Science  is 
located  in  the  west  wing  of  the  building,  and  the  Faculty  of  Philosophy  in  the  east  wing.    These  faculties 


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have  no  special  reading  rooms  on  the  main  floor;  but,  in  an  intermediate  story,  each  has  a  series  of  seminar 
rooms,  nine  in  number,  in  immediate  connection  with  the  book  stacks  of  the  department  to  which  the  seminar 
belongs.  These  seminar  rooms  are  so  arranged  that  several  may  be  thrown  into  one,  at  will;  and  they  can 
thus  be  adapted  to  the  use  of  large  or  small  groups  at  any  moment.  On  the  top  floor  are  lecture  rooms  for 
these  faculties  also.  The  aim  has  been  to  make  the  use  of  the  books  by  the  professor  and  the  student  alike,  as 
easy  and  convenient  as  possible.  If  the  building  is  peculiar  in  any  respect,  it  is  in  the  emphasis  which  has 
been  laid  upon  this  idea.  The  library  is  not  so  much  a  storehouse  for  books  as  it  is  a  laboratory  for  those 
who  are  to  use  books.    Quite  as  much  thought  has  been  given  to  the  reader  as  to  the  bock. 

The  uses  to  which  the  other  buildings  are  to  be  put  sufficiently  appear  by  an  examination  of  the  dia- 
grams in  this  pamphlet.  No  effort  has  been  spared  to  adapt  them  as  perfectly  as  possible  to  the  work  to  be 
done  in  them.  In  plan  and  arrangement  every  advantage  has  been  taken  of  what  has  been  done  elsewhere, 
both  in  this  country  and  abroad. 

The  gymnasium  will  be  one  of  the  best  in  the  country.  It  contains  an  available  floor  space  of  about  16,000 
square  feet.  Underneath  the  gymnasium  are  the  baths,  the  principal  feature  of  which  is  a  swimming  pool 
100  feet  in  width.  This  pool,  like  the  building  above  it  is  apsidal  in  shape,  the  curve  of  the  apse  having  a 
radius  of  50  feet.  Although  the  baths  are  below  the  surface  of  the  ground,  they  will  be  well  lighted  by 
means  of  large  windows  and  a  broad  area. 

Advantage  has  been  taken  of  the  large  size  of  the  building  of  which  the  gymnasium  forms  a  part  to 
secure  a  running  track  having  only  nine  and  a  half  laps  to  the  mile     The  locker  room  space  is  ample. 

The  entrance  to  the  gymnasium  is  through  a  fine  growth  of  large  trees,  which  give  to  the  northern  end 
of  the  ground  a  park-like  effect.  As  a  result  of  these  conditions,  the  students  of  Columbia  will  enjoy  a  free- 
dom of  movement  and  an  opportunity  for  exercise  which  have  been  impossible  under  the  cramped  conditions 
of  its  present  site.  In  a  word,  the  new  site  will  give  to  the  student  of  Columbia,  in  the  future,  a  local 
habitation  of  which  he  may  be  justly  proud,  and  around  which  tender  associations  are  sure  to  gather  as  the 
years  go  by.  Not  since  Columbia  left  its  historic  site  by  the  City  Hall  until  now,  has  it  been  possible  for  her 
students  to  feci  that  they  have  had  as  such,  not  only  an  intellectual  mother  but  an  intellectual  home.  This 
great  dclicicncy  the  new  site  of  Columbia  promises  to  make  good  to  the  generations  of  stitdents  that  are  to 
come  while  the  University  and  the  city  endure. 


THK  LII5RARV 
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SCIIERMERIIORN  HALL 


PHYSICS  BUILDING 

VIEW  FROM  BARNARD  COLLEGE, 


H.W  KMKVKK  HALL 
APRIL   15,  1S07 


l;.N(.UNi:i  KIM.  la  11. DING 


THE  LIBRARY. 


Basement.  Second  Floor. 


lOI. 

President's  Stall. 

109. 

Office  of  the  Bursar. 

301. 

Seminar  Rooms  (West 

306. 

Seminar  Rooms  (East 

102. 

Stcnn-raiilici>,  Copyists. 

110. 

Office  of  the  Superinten- 

Wing). 

Wing). 

103. 

Book  Packing'  Room. 

dent   of  Buildings  and 

302. 

Study. 

307. 

Office  of  the  Secretary  of 

104. 

Vault.    Rare  Rooks. 

Grounds. 

303- 

the  University. 

105. 

Printing  Room. 

Post  Office. 

304- 

30S. 

Office  of  the  President  of 

106. 

Law  Club. 

III. 

Cloak  Room. 

305- 

" 

the  LTniversity. 

107. 

Staek  Room. 

112. 

Stack  Room. 

108. 

Law  Club. 

113- 

Third 

Floor. 

401. 

Lecture  Room. 

410. 

I'olitical  Science,  Lecture 

First 

Floor. 

402. 

Political  Science,  Lecture 

Room. 

Room. 

4U. 

Study. 

201. 

T^ibrarian's  Room. 

208. 

Law  Students  Conference 

4<)3- 

Political  Science,  Faculty 

412. 

Study. 

202. 

Accession  Room. 

Room. 

Room. 

413. 

Lecture  Room. 

203. 

Catalogue  and  Delivery 

209. 

Greek  and  Latin  Seminar 

404. 

Political  Science,  Office  of 

414- 

Study. 

Room. 

Room. 

the  Dean. 

415- 

Philosophy, LecturePoom. 

204. 

Catalogue  and  Delivery 

210. 

Avery  Architectural 

405- 

Political  Science,  Lecture 

416. 

"   Office  of  the  Dean. 

Room. 

Library. 

Room. 

417. 

"    Lecture  Room. 

205. 

Periodical  Room. 

211. 

Reading  Room. 

406. 

Political  Science,  Lecture 

41S. 

206. 

Office  of  the  Dean  of  the 

212. 

Trustees'  Room. 

Room. 

419. 

Ante  Room. 

Law  School. 

213, 

Presidents'  Public  Office. 

407. 

Ante  Room. 

420. 

Office. 

207. 

Law  Library. 

214. 

Large  Reading  Room. 

408. 

Office. 

421. 

Lecture  Room. 

(Rotunda.) 

409. 

Political  Science  (Quarterly. 

422. 

SCHERMERHORNi  HALL 


SCHERMERHORN  HALL. 


Sub-Basement. 

Basement. 

204. 

Mineralogy,  Optical  Labo- 

205. Mineralogy,  Optical  Labo- 

lOI. 

Geology,  Muscuni. 

105.  Mineralogy,  Preparation 

ratory. 

ratory. 

I02. 

Office. 

Room. 

Second 

Floor. 

104. 

Museum. 

106.  Lecture  Room  and  Labo- 

ratory. 

40T. 

Geology,  Lecture  Room. 

407:  Psychology, Lecture  Room. 

402. 

Laboratory. 

40S.          "        Dark  Room. 

403. 

Office. 

409.          "  Laboratory. 

404. 

Library. 

410.            •         Dark  Room. 

First 

Floor. 

405. 

Psychology,  Study. 

411.          '■  Laboratory. 

406. 

Seminar. 

.fr2.          •'        Work  Shop. 

301. 

Geologv,  Museum. 

305.  ^lineralogv, Lecture  Room 

413.  Psychology 

Laboratory. 

302. 

Office. 

306.         "  Office. 

Fourth 

Floor. 

303. 

*'  Laboratory. 

307.         * '  Library 

304- 

Mineralogy,  Laboratory. 

308.         "  Museum. 

601. 

Zoolo      I  aboratorv 

Oil    Z(jolog\'  Studv 

(graduate) 

602. 

Zoology,  Laboratory. 

613.       "  I^aboratory. 

Third 

Floor. 

603. 

Study. 

614.       •'     Janitor's  Room. 

604. 

615.       "     Supply  Room. 

# 

605. 

O16.       "  Library. 

501. 

Botany,  Conservatory. 

505.  Botany,  Lecture  Room. 

606. 

Museum. 

617.       "     Preparation  Room. 

502. 

Laboratory. 

506.      "  Study. 

607. 

61S.       "  Laboratory 

503. 

507.  Laboratory. 

608. 

Study. 

(Undergraduate). 

504. 

50S. 

609. 

619.  Zoology,  Lecture  Room. 

509.  Museum. 

610. 

620.       '•       Aquaria  Room. 

PHYSICS  Brn.Dixi; 
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PHYSICS  BUILDING. 


Sub-Basement. 


106.  Ventilating  Apparatus. 

107.  Stair  Hall. 


101.  Shops. 

102.  Vapor  Density  Room. 

103.  Stair  Hall.  108.  " 

104.  "       "  109.  Store  Room. 

105.  Shops.  110.  Calorimeter  Room 

Constant  Temperature  Room. 

First  Floor. 

Dkpartment  of  Physics. 


301.  Lecture  Room. 

302.  Stair  Hall. 

303.  Lecture  Apparatus  Room 

304.  "  Room. 


305.  Semmar. 

306.  Stair  Hall. 

307.  Laborator)-. 
308. 

309.  Study. 


Third  Floor. 

DINIMON   OF  EnDI.ISI 


501.  Lecture  Room. 

502.  Study. 

503.  Lecture  Room. 

504.  Hall. 

505.  Study. 

506.  Lecture  Room. 


507.  Study. 

508. 

509. 

510.  Lecture  Room. 

511.  Study. 

512.  Lecture  Room. 


6ji. 

6(12. 

603. 

(>o.\. 

boh. 
607. 


Electrical  Laboratory. 
Stair  Hall. 

Battery  Room  (under 

north  entrance). 
Students'  Club. 


Basement. 

Dei'.\rt.ment  of  Physics. 

205.  Photometer  Room. 

206.  Coat  Room. 

207.  Store  Room. 


Laboratory. 
Stair  Hall.' 
Research  Room 
Office. 


208.  Stair  Hall. 

209.  Janitor's  Room. 
210.  Optical  Laboratory. 

Second  Floor. 

Dkparimem-  of  Physics. 

406.  Office. 

407.  Photography. 

408.  Stair  Hall. 

409.  Acoustics. 


Research  Room.  410.  Spectrometry. 

Fourth  Floor. 

DeI'.MMMKMS  (IF  AslRdNOMY   AND  MfCHANH  S 

Photography.  60S.  Study. 

Laboratory.  609.  Lecture  Room. 

Study.  610.  Study. 

Lecture  Room.  611.  Store  Room. 

Hall.  fii2.  Stair  Hall. 

Study.  613.  Lecture  Room. 

Apparatus  Room.  614.  Study. 

615.  Lecture  Room. 


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HAVEMEYER  HALL 

-•8 


HAVEMEYER  HALL. 


Sub-Basement. 

Metallurgy,  I'urnace  Room.    104.  Study. 

Laboratory.         105.  Library. 
Museum  and       107.  Assay  Laboratory. 
Lceture  Room. 

First  Floor. 

DkI'AK  IMKN  r    Ol-  ClIKMlSl'KV. 

Lecture  Room.  307.  Library. 

Study.  308.  Dean's  Office. 

Ante  Room.  309.  Lecture  Room. 

Laboratory.  311.  " 

312.  Preparation  Room. 

Dark  Room.  313.  Study. 

315.  Museum. 

Third  Floor. 

Dl;i'.\RT.Ml-.NT    or  ClIK.MISTRV. 


203-204.  Coat  Room. 


Balance  Room. 
Office. 

Balance^'loom. 
Quantitative  Laboratory. 
Laboratory. 
Study. 

Volumetric  Analysis. 


509.  Library. 

510.  Electrolytic  Analysis. 

511.  Lecture  Room. 

512.  Spectroscopic  Analysis. 

513.  Study. 

514.  Supply  Room. 

515.  Qualitative  Laboratory. 

516.  Office. 


Basement. 

205.  Furnace  Room. 

Second  Floor. 

'AKTMKNI    OF  C 1 1  KM  1 STK Y . 


401. 

Study. 

411.  Study. 

402. 

Balance  Room. 

413.  Lecture  Room. 

403- 

Glass  Blowing  Room. 

414.  Applied  Chemistry. 

404. 

Combustion  Room. 

415.  Fermentation  Room. 

405. 

Organic  Laboratory. 

416.  H;iectro-Chemistry. 

406. 

Store  Room. 

417.  Dyeing  Room. 

407. 

Cannon  Room. 

418.  Petroleum  Room. 

408. 

Study. 

419.  Store  Room. 

409. 

420.  Sugar  Room. 

410. 

Laboratory. 

421.  Study. 

Fourth 

Floor. 

Dl.r.VKTMl.M  ol 

AKriini  .   M  KK. 

601. 

Study. 

607.  Study. 

602. 

60S.  Library. 

603. 

609.  Lecture  Room. 

604. 

Museum. 

610.  Study. 

605. 

Study. 

611.  Lecture  Room. 

606. 

Draughting  Room. 

612.  Draughting  Room. 

613.  Study. 

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3* 


ENC.IN-EERIXG  HUILDIXd 


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ENGINEERING  BUILDING. 


Sub-Basement. 

101.  Photometer  Room.  io8.  Ore  Room. 

102.  Storage  Battery  Room.  109.  Ore  Dressing  Room. 

103.  ElectriL-al  Lal)nratory.  no.  Lixiviation  and  Electro- 
105.  Thernin-1  )y nainics  Labo-  Metallurgy. 

ratory.  111.  Mining  Laboratory. 


Basement. 


201.  Dynamo  Room. 

202.  Electrical  Engineering 

Laboratory. 


205.  Cement  Testing  Room. 

206.  Hydraulic  Laboratory. 

207.  Ore  Dressing  Laboratory. 


Second  Floor. 


First  Floor. 

301.  Civil  Engineering  Lecture  30-1.  Mechanical  Engineering 

Room.  Study. 

302   Ci\  il  Engineering  Lecture  306.  ^lechanical  Engineering 

Room.  Lecture  Room. 

303.  l-^lectrical  Engineering  307.  Mechanical  Engineering 

Museum.  Museum. 

30S.  Mining  Engineering  Laboratory. 


Third 

501.  Electrical  Engineering 

Laboratory. 

502.  Electiical  Engineering 

Research  Room. 

503.  Electrical  Engineering 

Study. 

504.  Electrical  Engineering 

Study. 


Floor. 

505.  Electrical  Engineering 

Study. 

506.  Civil  Engineering 

Draughting  Room. 

507.  Civil  Engineering  Study. 
508. 

SO.). 

510.  Civil  Engineering 
Draughting  Room 


401.  Civil  Engineering  Museum. 

402.  Civil  Engineering  Lecture 

Room. 

403.  Civil  Engineering  Study. 

404.  Mining  Engineering 

Draughting  Room. 

405.  Mining  Engineering  La- 

boratory. 


406.  Mining  Engineering  Mu- 

seum. 

407.  Mining  Engineering  Con- 

ference Room. 
40S.  ^Mining Engineering  Study. 
409. 

410.  Mining  Engineering  Lec- 
ture Room. 


Fourth  Floor. 

601.  Draughting  Room.  604.  Model  Room. 

602.  Study.  605.  Study. 

603.  "  606.  " 


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THE  COLLEGE  OF  PHYSICIANS  AND  SURGEONS. 


The  College  of  Physicians,  on  July  ist,  1891,  became,  by  authority  of  the  Legislature,  a  part  xif 
Columbia  University.  This  merger,  which  makes  the  medical  department  in  a  complete  sense  an  integral 
part  of  the  University  system,  largely  increases  the  usefulness  of  the  Medical  School,  favors  the  thorough- 
ness of  scientific  medical  education,  and  promotes  scientific  research. 

The  College  occupies  a  group  of  buildings,  given  by  the  late  William  H.  Vanderbilt  and  members  of 
his  family,  and  by  William  D.  Sloane,  Esq.,  which  stand  upon  thirty  contiguous  lots  of  land,  bounded  on  the 
south,  west,  and  north  by  Fifty-ninth  Street,  Tenth  Avenue,  and  Sixtieth  vStreet,  respectively,  and  lying 
immediately  opposite  to  the  Roosevelt  Hospital. 

The  Elevated  Railroad  station,  which  is  a  few  steps  from  the  college,  at  the  corner  of  Fift3'-ninth 
Street  and  Ninth  Avenue,  is  the  point  of  union  of  the  Ninth  Avenue  and  Sixth  Avenue  roads,  by  either  of 
which  the  buildings  are  immediately  accessible  from  the  north  and  south. 

The  cross  town  "  surface-cars  of  the  Belt-line  Surface  Railway  move  cast  and  west  along  Fifty- 
ninth  Street,  pass  the  site  of  the  college,  and  place  it  in  easy  communication  with  the  Second  and  Third 
Avenue  Elevated  roads,  and  with  the  numerous  lines  of  surface-cars  which  reach  Fifty-ninth  Street  from  the 
north  and  south.  All  important  points  in  the  city,  including  the  various  hospitals,  can  thus  readily  be  reached 
from  the  college  without  a  walk  of  any  length. 

The  buildings  appertaining  to  the  college  are  three  in  number:  The  College  Building  ;  The  Vander- 
bilt Clinic;  The  sioane  Maternity  Hospital. 

The  College  Building  has  been  designed  to  facilitate  the  combination  of  didactic  instruction 
with  labtjratory  work  which  is  essential  to  a  modern  scientific  training.  It  consists  of  a  soutlu-rn  portion 
measuring  140  feet  by  43  feet,  extending  along  Fifty-ninth  Street;  of  a  nortIicr)i  portion,  96  feet  by  43  feet, 
extending  along  Sixlietli  Street;  and  of  a  middle  portion,  96  feet  by  55  feet,  connecting  the  other  two.  The 
total  area  covered  is  therefore  15,428  square  feet. 

Through  the  reeeiit  generous  gift  of  Messrs.  Cornelius,  William  K.,  Frederick  W.,  and  George  W. 
Vanderbilt,  ;m  iiii [xirtaiit  eiilaigenient  of  the  college  building  has  been  made,  thus  providing  additional 
facilities  t(H-  anatoniieal  teaching  and  for  practical  work  in  Pathology  and  Bacteriology. 


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The  south  \vin<;-  of  the  eollcge  has  been  extended  on  Fifty-ninth  vStrcet  eastward  for  55  feet,  the  depth 
of  llic  new  wiui;-  being-  80  feet.  This  new  building  is  four  stories  high,  and  is  devoted  to  the  Department  of 
AnalDiiiv.  The  basement  contains  the  cast  and  modelling  rooms,  the  corrosion-room,  and  the  reference 
ostcological  collection.  The  first  and  second  stories  are  occupied  by  the  Museum  of  Human  and  Comparative 
Morphology,  the  first  fioor  being  provided  with  a  gallery  which  greatly  increases  the  available  flcjor  space. 

The  Morphological  Research  Laboratory,  occupies  the  third  story  of  the  new  anatomical  building', 
affording  ample  accommodations  for  the  researches  of  the  officers  of  the  department  and  for  post-graduate 
students. 

The  fourth  iloor  forms  an  extension  to  the  original  dissecting  room.  The  new  class-room  for  practical 
anatomy  will  acroiiiiiindale  over  four  hundred  students.  The  artificial  cooling  plant  enables  work  to 
be  carried  on  without  regard  to  llie  outside  temperature. 

The  north  end  of  the  t'ourtli  il^.oi-  is  occupied  byasmall  auditorium  for  anatomical  demonstrations.  It 
has  overhead  light  and  an  an  angeiiK  iU  of  seals  carefully  planned,  so  as  to  bring  each  member  of  the  sections 
close  to  the  object  of  the  demonstration. 

The  new  Vandcrbilt  Clinic  extends  from  the  corner  of  vSixticth  Street  and  Tenth  Avenue  to  the  north 
wing  of  the  college  building,  covering  an  area  iSo  by  60  feet,  and  is  three  stories  in  height.  It  is  twice  the 
size  of  the  original  Iniikling. 

This  institution  was  l)uilt  and  endowed  by  the  sons  of  the  late  William  H.  Vandcrbilt,  as  a  memorial  of 
their  father.  It  supplies  a  fully  equipped  dispensary  service  for  the  sick  poor.  It  also  affords  ample  material 
for  extended  practical  clinical  instruction  in  the  various  departments  of  medicine  and  surgery,  as  the  profes- 
sors, with  their  clinical  assistants,  have  the  entire  charge  of  its  practice.  ■ 

All  modern  appliances  for  the  treatment  of  diseases  have  been  introduced,  so  that  students  can  learn 
thorough^v  the  use  of  all  methods  in  each  department,  and  thus  can  acquire  a  practical  knowledge  of  all  the 
specialties  "  in  medicine. 

The  Sloanc  Maternity  Hospital  is  upon  the  college  land  at  the  corner  of  Fifty- ninth  Street  and  Tenth 
Avenue. 

This  is  a  lying  in  hospital  given  by  William  D.  Sloane.  Esq.,  whose  wife,  a  daughter  of  the  late  William 
H.  Vandcrbilt,  has  endowed  the  institution  by  making  all  of  its  beds  free  in  perpetuity. 


BOAT  HOUSE. 


THE  BOAT  HOUSE  is  the  gift  of  Mr.  Edwin  Gould,  of  the  Class  of  '88  of  the  School  of  Mines. 
It  is  situated  at  the  foot  of  West  115th  Street,  and  offers  to  the  students  of  Columbia,  despite  the 
location  of   the  University  in  the  city,  water  privileges  that  cannot  be  excelled.     It  has  been  so 
esigned  as  to  facilitate  the  use  of  it  by  students  who  are  interested  in  boating,  whether  they  are  members 
f  the  crews  or  training  to  that  end  or  not.    The  dimensions  of  the  house  itself  are  50  feet  by  86  feet,  with 
12  foot  piazza,  from  which  gangways  lead  down  to  the  float. 


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